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archildress ◴[] No.44449673[source]
I just feel extremely sad about the mass quantity of events like this happening right now because they are all aggregate to huge negative effects but the average person knows nothing of it. It feels so unfixable.
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SchemaLoad ◴[] No.44450869[source]
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jordanb ◴[] No.44451073[source]
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ben_w ◴[] No.44452789[source]
That a Ukraine loss is seen as the end of a free Europe (because Russia wouldn't stop at least until at least DDR Germany borders), is why the other European nations are collectively increasing military spending.

For a sense of scale (only scale, money is definitely not the most important criteria), the EU currently spends twice as much on their military as Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest...

So if (when) American support disappears, I expect Russia to continue to not go anywhere fast while wasting a lot of lives in the process. I also expect this to surprise Putin, as he thinks Russia is a Great Power and therefore can only be stalling if Ukraine is supported by another Great Power and doesn't recognise that (1) Russia isn't, and (2) the EU kinda is, sort of, when it feels like acting with unity rather than as 27 different nations.

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4gotunameagain ◴[] No.44453390[source]
It makes no sense whatsoever for Russia to attack more states than Ukraine.

The sole reason Russia invaded Ukraine was that it was flirting too much with NATO.

Putin might be a lunatic, but he is not stupid.

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pjc50 ◴[] No.44454221[source]
.. which has had the effect of forcing formerly neutral Finland, which shares a border with Russia, to join NATO.

The claim that Russia has a right to dictate the alliances of other countries simply because they border it is ludicrous and violates international law.

(Simo Häyhä had something to say about last time Russia invaded Finland)

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4gotunameagain ◴[] No.44454811[source]
The same way the US has left all the countries around it alone ? Are you joking ?

The list of US backed military coups in the Americas does not fit on an A4 page with a font size small enough to be unreadable.

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1. pjc50 ◴[] No.44454868[source]
Easy response: those were also wrong. As was the invasion of Iraq, which arguably ended up being used as a justification in the opposite direction.